or a utility pole. the institute says 10,000 people die in frontal crashes each year and the collision types of you see in the videos here are a major source of the fatalities. here are the winners and losers in the new round of testing. the cars that performed the best, acura tl and volvo s- 60 which had good ratings. inifiti g got acceptable rating. the losers? they got the same poor rating from the institute. mercedes-benz c-class. lexus is 250 and 350. the audi @4 and, lexus, es-350. this is first time a test of this particular type has been used in the u.s. the carmakers have not responded to the tests. mercedes says this is uncommon scenario and we have full confidence in the